Open Guard Flashcards
Open guard to standing toe hold
When standing in your opponents open guard grab a grip on the top of their toes with your same side making sure your opposite side leg is place inside they knee crease of their opposite leg, from here reach round with your free arm over their leg you have hold of and underneath and grab the wrist of your arm that has hold of their toes in a kimora style grip, from here you bend their foot as if you were trying to jam their big toes in the opponents arse to finish
Open guard to rolling toe hold
When standing in your opponents open guard grab a grip on the top of their toes with your same side making sure your opposite side leg is place inside they knee crease of their opposite leg, from here reach round with your free arm over their leg you have hold of and underneath and grab the wrist of your arm that has hold of their toes in a kimora style grip, from here we roll over our far side shoulder making sure to hook their leg with the leg that’s next to their knee crease so we keep hold of the opponent, this will cause them to roll with us and land on their front and we will be on our back facing our opponent still with the kimora grip on their toes and from here we can bend the foot as if we were trying to out the big toe up the opponents arse to finish
Open guard berimolo to back control
When stood in your opponents open guard with one of your legs on the inside of their legs in the knee crease of the far side leg and one of your legs on the outside roll over your far side shoulder whilst hooking both of the opponents legs with both of your legs causing a leg entanglement when you roll, from here we extend both our legs causing the opponents legs to extend as well them we shrimp in towards our opponents back and then get hooks in and move into back control
Open guard to single leg x straight ankle lock
when standing in our opponents open guard with both our legs in-between the opponents with the same side arm we grab a grip underneath the opponent achilies and tuck their foot under our armpit making sure to get it as high up into our armpit as possible making it easier to finish the submission, we should also place this same arms hand high up on our own chest to keep the grip on their ankle tight, From here we drop back onto out bum and place the leg on the same side as the ankle we’re gripping under the leg and our foot on the opponent hip and the other legs knee in-between the opponents leg with the foot hooking their free leg and we must make sure our knee and foot are squeezing tight together to keep their leg locked in, from here we drop the shoulders down and back and extend our hips to finish
Open guard to straight ankle lock variation
when standing in our opponents open guard with both our legs in-between the opponents with the same side arm we grab a grip underneath the opponent achilies and tuck their foot under our armpit making sure to get it as high up into our armpit as possible making it easier to finish the submission, we should also place this same arms hand high up on our own chest to keep the grip on their ankle tight, from here with our opposite Side leg we step on the opponent abdomen are and sit back and as we sit back we bend our other legs that’s the same side as the grip and wrap our foot under the same side knee crease. stepping on the opponents abdomen will stop them from sitting up when you fall back and escaping the submission. From this position we drop back our shoulders and extend our hips to finish
Open guard to knee bar
When in our opponent open guard with both our legs in-between theirs we step one of our legs over the opposite side of the opponents hip area and sit down on the opponents groin area so all of our weight is on them, form here we grab a kimora grip on the opponents leg and fall to the same side as the leg we have hold of, from here we extend our hips to finish.
